Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the subject of one of two new plays coming soon to Hartlepool’s Town Hall Theatre.
WiLd, written by Evan Placey and produced by Leeds-based children’s theatre company tutti frutti, is a one-person show with a live musician which explores the fragility of a misunderstood boy with ADHD who lives within his wild imagination.
Suitable for children aged 8 and over, the play comes to Hartlepool on Friday 13 May at 4:30.
5 July sees the arrival at the Town Hall Theatre of Chaplin—The Charlie Chaplin Story starring Steven Arnold (Coronation Street) and Nicole Faraday (Bad Girls, Emmerdale) along with a cast of actor/musicians.
Chaplin’s beginnings were poverty-stricken, but through his creation ‘The Little Tramp’ and films such as The Great Dictator and Limelight, he ended his life as a knight of the realm and a cinema legend.
The show, written by Stuart Price with music by Jake Field, begins with the young boy on his journey through the dark streets of Victorian Vaudeville London and follows him through his early career, showbiz ambitions and often-fractious relationship with his mother, his family and his first love.